To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
From John Tyndall 9 April [1873]
Summary
Is convinced that the "brotherly spirit of the transaction" will cause Huxley not to raise objections.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8852 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
To John Lubbock 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5172 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
From Elizabeth Juliana Sabine 7 December [1864]
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of CD’s letter on behalf of her husband, who is unwell.
| Author: | Elizabeth Juliana Sabine |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4705 |
To John Tyndall 25 April [1873]
Summary
Sends Huxley’s "charming letter". Asks whether it should be sent to Lady Millicent Jones. CD is "so happy about the whole affair".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 16 (EH 88205954) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8877 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Henry Bence Jones , a subscriber to the Huxley fund. Bence Jones had died on 20 April 1873 ( ODNB ). See letter …
- … Henry Huxley (see n. 2, below). CD refers to the letter from T. H. Huxley, 24 April 1873 , a copy of which was enclosed with the letter to subscribers to T. H. Huxley’s gift, [25 April 1873] . Millicent Bence Jones …
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
To George Bentham 1 October 1866
Summary
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5225 |
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
From Charles John Robinson [1866?]
Summary
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
| Author: | Charles John Robinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4966 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 21 April 1869]
Summary
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 21 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6521 |
To H. B. Jones [23 April 1866?]
Summary
Had hoped to call, but cannot do so comfortably, so will HBJ call on CD instead, for a consultation?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | [23 Apr 1866?] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (Bence Jones autograph letter file) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5064A |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
To W. D. Fox 25–6 October [1865]
Summary
Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.
News of family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25–6 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4924 |
From Andrew Clark 3 September 1873
Summary
Diagnosis of CD’s illness; prescribed diet.
| Author: | Andrew Clark, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9041 |
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5197 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865]
Summary
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4942 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Tyndall, John | (2) |
| Clark, Andrew | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Tyndall, John | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
